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Can you imagine the horror? An hour, a day, or a week with no Internet? How in the world would we survive?
Buzzfeed came up with a fun experiment at the coffee shop. Without telling them what was going on, they cut the Internet. No YouTube, no work email, and no Spotify.
See what happens next! ... Read More

Recently I was involved in helping a local church evaluate and consider many options for their wireless network.
What was being considered and how was it currently being used?
What ways could it better be used in the areas of ministries throughout the week?
As well as how can it work across the building for everyone without having to switch networks for each area?
Whether the church your involved in is new or been around for years, these are the universal questions that must be ... Read More

Wifi signals are made of radio waves that have a shorter wavelength than AM radio and cell phones, but longer than satellite TV. How can I make my wifi faster? There are several things you can do to make your wifi faster without paying more, and they mostly have to do with the placement of your wifi router.
Here are some of those tips: ... Read More

Have you had a failure or two within your church technology ministry? So have we and we share several stories on a past series we had called Tech Wreck Tuesday. Most of the time, the failure is our own doing when we forget to change the microphone batteries and they die in the middle of a sermon or we are operating too many apps at once and the computer crashes during worship.
But then there are times where others have a fail and it's so cringe worthy.
The video below is not of a pastor on ... Read More

Does your church have WiFi?
If you're a regular ChurchMag reader, I'd hazard a guess that it does. Here's a question you're less likely to answer "yes" to:
Is your church open for public use of the WiFi?
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Andrew Lloyd Webber who gave us The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and so on and so forth, said in an interview with the Daily Mail a few weeks ago and said that he wanted every church (in England) to have WiFi. The operatic feline aficionado went on to say: ... Read More

Have you ever had a hard time getting a wifi signal to a particular place in your home or church office?
Jason Cole had a similar problem, but since he is a PhD student in physics, he decided to figure out why:
“...he mapped his own apartment and assigned refraction values to the walls, then applied so-called Helmholtz equations to model the electromagnetic waves.”
You can see the results here: ... Read More

Isn't getting your friends wifi credentials a pain?
I've seen wifi details on Post-It notes, in a Word document on someone's desktop and then there are those wifi owners that don't know it. Now here's a cool and creative way to make your wifi details easy for your friends and family while keeping your network safe and secure from those outside your home.
This would also be a cool way to display your church's wifi info, too!
Check this out: ... Read More

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that “most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it.”
It doesn't stop there, either:
“In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.”
The Prime Minister also said that many “horrific” Internet search terms would be blacklisted.
The filters would not only effect your typical ... Read More

Cool ideas and concepts continue to spill forth from Google. I especially love this one that intends to bring Internet connectivity to African institutions of learning via flying craft.
The trial involves 10 schools in Cape Town, South Africa, and involves the use of "white space network" with blimps (and other infrastructure down the line) to stream signal over large areas the schools are situated in... literally wi-fi via blimp. It's a fairly large undertaking, but one with a lot of ... Read More

I’ve been reflecting on the next wave of internetness: "the Internet of things." This is that ability for our toasters and cars and devices to talk to each other in real time: and affecting our physical world! Intro in Part 1.
So a practical question is:
What does the church look like with the Internet of things "built in"?
If any appliance or person can carry a sensor and we’ve written sophisticated apps to automate our "church management life," what’s different than today?
Some starting ... Read More